Celtic stuff their pockets with more than just Champions League cash on night with only one misstep – Keith Jackson

That's the trouble with trying to manage expectations. Every now and then your team goes and spoils it all by doing something stupid like scoring five goals in a Champions League opener.

So, as a result of a result which has sent Celtic’s hopes and aspirations sky rocketing, Brendan Rodgers must now find a way of getting heads out of clouds and feet back on the ground as he strives to underpin his club’s notoriously shaky credentials on the European stage. Which, after all, is a very serious business indeed.

The going rate for a win in UEFA’s freshly beefed up competition is around £1.76m. And Rodgers has taken that cheque to the bank already on the back of a blistering opening night performance against Bratislava. But not even the high rollers in Nyon can put a price on a good time. Nor, for that matter, on the value of restoring reputations.

Celtic filled their pockets with all of the above on Wednesday night which is why confidence levels around Glasgow’s east end are already soaring, just one game into the new league phase. Even before a ball had been kicked on Wednesday night one fan contacted Record Sport's new online show, Hotline Live, predicting that Celtic will go ‘all the way’ in this season’s competition.

Presumably he spent Thursday morning booking up flights and accommodation for the final in Munich on May 31 next year. By stuffing five goals past the Slovaks, Scotland’s champions ended matchday one sitting in second position in a 36 team table, topped only by Vincent Kompany’s Bayern who thumped nine in against Dinamo Zagreb.

That’s why Rodgers cracked a joke about stopping the competition immediately and heading straight to the Allianz in Bavaria. OK, granted, it didn’t land all that well inside the room